Really, Really Un-Hatched

Dick Franson, a 77-year-old Democrat, is running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota. That's not surprising: It's his sixth Senate run and 23rd try to win public office in the past 40 years, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. And that's despite the fact that from the 1970s to 1990, Franson couldn't run for office because he was a federal employee and Hatch Act restrictions prevented him from entering partisan races. He's only won once, in a bid to serve as a city alderman in Minneapolis.